Brooke allen biography

PERSONAL: Born 1956; daughter of Lewis M. (a theatrical producer and film producer) and Jay Presson Allen (a playwright and screenwriter); married Peter Aaron (an architectural photographer), September 8, 1992.

Education:University of Virginia, B.A., 1979; Columbia University, M.A., Ph.D., 1993.

CAREER: Writer and literary critic. Served as managing editor of Grand Street magazine.

WRITINGS

Twentieth-Century Attitudes: Literary Powers in Uncertain Times, Ivan R.

Dee (Chicago, IL), 2003.

(Author of introduction and notes) Sinclair Lewis, Main Street, consulting editorial direction by George Stade, Barnes & Noble (New York, NY), 2003.

Artistic License: Three Centuries of Good Writing and Bad Behavior, Ivan R.

Dee (Chicago, IL), 2004.

Moral Minority: Our Skeptical Founding Fathers, Ivan R. Dee (Chicago, IL), 2006.

Contributor to periodicals, including the New York Times Book Review, New Criterion, and Atlantic Monthly.

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